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N_Cook

Where you can upload a pic of a mystery item somewhere, direct a search
engine to it , analyses it and finds similar. ?
I have a no name web cam I would like to find a driver for and also a few
hundred, no context silver-plated brass widgets , no name /number etc also,
I'd like to identify
 
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Adrian C

Where you can upload a pic of a mystery item somewhere, direct a search
engine to it , analyses it and finds similar. ?
I have a no name web cam I would like to find a driver

That's easy (unless some rules have been broken).

Google 'usb device id list' and ask your operating system what device id
it sees.

for and also a few
hundred, no context silver-plated brass widgets , no name /number etc also,
I'd like to identify

That is a bit harder, needs human eyes. Can you post a picture on
somewhere like photobucket?
 
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GregS

That's easy (unless some rules have been broken).

Google 'usb device id list' and ask your operating system what device id
it sees.

for and also a few

That is a bit harder, needs human eyes. Can you post a picture on
somewhere like photobucket?

Search engines do not analyse pictures. You do need to up load pictures and have experts analyse,
like a forum for silver plated brass widgets. You show them where to find pictures.

By the way, Yahoo still favors using Flicker for their image library, but
have greatly improved their image library. I have also noticed they are better
than Google at indexing many websites, and like always, you have to use different
search engines to find the info you are looking for.

greg
 
K

kaboom

Where you can upload a pic of a mystery item somewhere, direct a search
engine to it , analyses it and finds similar. ?
I have a no name web cam I would like to find a driver for and also a few
hundred, no context silver-plated brass widgets , no name /number etc also,
I'd like to identify

**Would something like this work?


http://www.tineye.com/

Though I think you'd have to load the picture somewhere first like
flickr or something.
 
N

N_Cook

kaboom said:
**Would something like this work?


http://www.tineye.com/

Though I think you'd have to load the picture somewhere first like
flickr or something.


I imagine that is for copyright infringement tracing, kept returning 0
results whatever I uploaded to it or directed it to
 
N

N_Cook

GregS said:
Search engines do not analyse pictures. You do need to up load pictures and have experts analyse,
like a forum for silver plated brass widgets. You show them where to find pictures.

By the way, Yahoo still favors using Flicker for their image library, but
have greatly improved their image library. I have also noticed they are better
than Google at indexing many websites, and like always, you have to use different
search engines to find the info you are looking for.

greg


Not really much to photograph
The widgets have a shape like bootlace ferrules but not for crimping as
thicker brass and also silver plating. Maybe a variant of turret tags for
setting in pcb without the turrets or some sort of terminal or pin.
12.5 mm long, hole through axis with a ridge around the outside, one end 1mm
hole and 2.5mm outside dimension and other end 2.8mm hole and 3.8mm outside.
 
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Adrian C

Not really much to photograph
The widgets have a shape like bootlace ferrules but not for crimping as
thicker brass and also silver plating. Maybe a variant of turret tags for
setting in pcb without the turrets or some sort of terminal or pin.
12.5 mm long, hole through axis with a ridge around the outside, one end 1mm
hole and 2.5mm outside dimension and other end 2.8mm hole and 3.8mm outside.

I think its a pin contact insert for a multi-pole connector. The ridge
fixes the pin in whatever material is the connector body and wires are
pushed and soldered inside the thicker end of it.
 
A decade ago some linguist claimed to have a system that could search
voice files. I lost track of her but she said she had worked for Mitch
Kapoor before her doctorate.

My guess is you could convert the photos to text using GIFSCII, which
would make them sufficiently fuzzy. They you would use a 4x4
transformation (with perspective scalings in the fourth dimension) to
convert everything to the same frame of reference.

I'd guess it exists already, but some gatekeeper refuses to believe it
enough to promote it.

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Search for "geometric search engine"
or "vector search engine".. just my first stab


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Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm
---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos]
 
I believe JPEG/MPEG uses eigencovariance to transform the image to the
coordinate system that requires the least possible storage, so that
should already take care of the frame of reference. I suspect if you
can get a search engine to just notice were in the JPEG this is
located, it can find similar images. SOme of this work resulted from
Kalman, Dhrymes & Los working on the SDI identification problem in the
late 1980s.
- = -
Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm
---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos]
 
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